[943] East Indian Church History, pp. 133, 134.

[944] Id. pp. 139, 140.

[945] Buchanan’s Christian Researches in Asia, pp. 159, 160.

[946] Purchas His Pilgrimes, part ii. book viii. chap. vi. sect. 5, p. 1269, London, 1625. The “Encyclopedia Britannica,” vol. viii. p. 695, eighth ed., speaks of Purchas as “an Englishman admirably skilled in language and human and divine arts, a very great philosopher, historian, and theologian.”

[947] Hist. Sab. part ii. chap. vi. sects. 3, 5.

[948] Cox’s Sabbath Laws, &c. p. 287.

[949] Id. Ib.

[950] Cox’s Sabbath Laws, &c. p. 287.

[951] Id. p. 286.

[952] Id. Ib.

[953] Id. p. 289.

[954] Tyndale’s Answer to More, book i. chap. xxv.

[955] Hessey, p. 352.

[956] Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, book ii. chap. viii. sect. 34, translated by John Allen.

[957] Quanquam non sine delectu Dominicum quem vocamus diem veteres in locum Sabbathi subrogarunt.

[958] Calvin’s Institutes, book ii. chap. viii. sect. 34.

[959] Calvin’s Harmony of the Evangelists on Matt. 28; Mark 16; Luke 24.

[960] Calvin’s Commentary on John 20.

[961] Calvin’s Commentary on Acts 2:1.

[962] Calvin’s Commentary on Acts 20:7.

[963] Id. Ib.

[964] Calvin’s Commentary on Acts 20:7.

[965] Calvin’s Commentary on 1 Cor. 16:2.

[966] Id. Ib.

[967] Calvin’s Institutes, book ii. chap. viii. sect. 34.

[968] Hessey’s Bampton Lectures on Sunday, p. 201, ed. 1866. In the notes appended, p. 366, he says: “At Geneva a tradition exists, that when John Knox visited Calvin on a Sunday, he found his austere coadjutor bowling on a green.” Dr. Hessey evidently credited this tradition.

[969] Beza’s Life of Calvin, Sibson’s Translation, p. 55, ed. 1836.

[970] Id. p. 115.

[971] Eccl. Researches, chap. x. p. 338.

[972] Id. p. 339.

[973] Beza’s Life of Calvin, p. 168.

[974] M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia, vol. i. p. 663.

[975] Hessey, p. 341, gives a clue to the title of Barclay’s work. It was Parænesis ad Sectarios hujus temporis, lib. 1, cap. 13, p. 160, Rome, 1617.

[976] See Heylyn’s Hist. of the Sabbath, part ii. chapter vi. sect. 8; Morer’s Lord’s Day, pp. 216, 217, 228; An Inquiry into the Origin of Septenary Institutions, p. 55; The Modern Sabbath Examined, p. 26, Whitaker, Treacher, and Arnot, London, 1832; Cox’s Sabbath Literature, vol. i. pp. 165, 166; Hessey, pp. 141, 142, 198, 341, and the authors there cited.

[977] Morality of the Fourth Commandment, pp. 32, 36, 39, 40.

[978] In fact, the story told by Twisse that Barclay is not to be believed in what he says of Calvin because he was treacherous toward King James I., who for that reason would not promote him at his court, appears to be wholly unfounded. The Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. iv., p. 439, eighth edition, assigns a very different reason. It says: “In those days a pension bestowed upon a Scottish papist would have been numbered among the national grievances.” That is to say, public opinion would not then tolerate the promotion of a Romanist. But this writer believes that the king secretly favored Barclay. Thus on page 440 he adds: “Although it does not appear that he obtained any regular provision from the king, we may perhaps suppose that he at least received occasional gratuities.” This writer knew nothing of Barclay as a detected spy at the king’s court. Of his standing as a man, he says on p. 441: “If there had been any remarkable blemish in the morals of Barclay, some of his numerous adversaries would have pointed it out.” M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia, vol. 1, p. 663, says that he “would doubtless have succeeded at court had he not been a Romanist.” See also Knight’s Cyclopedia of Biography, article Barclay.

[979] Cox’s Sabbath Laws, &c. p. 123; M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia, vol. v. pp. 137-140.

[980] Quoted in Hessey’s Bampton Lectures, p. 200.

[981] Id. p. 201.

[982] Westminster Review, July, 1858, p. 37.

[983] Westminster Review, July, 1858, p. 37.

[984] Hessey, p. 203.

[985] Dr. Priestly, as quoted in Cox’s “Sabbath Laws,” p. 260.

[986] Life of Luther by Barnas Sears, D. D., larger ed. pp. 400, 401.

[987] M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia, vol. ii. p. 123.

[988] Id. Ib.

[989] D’Aubigné’s Hist. of the Ref. book ix.

[990] Mosheim’s Church Hist. book iv. cent. xvi. sect. 3, part ii. paragraph 22, note.

[991] Life of Luther, p. 401.

[992] D’Aubigné’s Hist. Ref. book ix. p. 282. I use the excellent one-volume edition of Porter and Coates.

[993] Life of Luther, pp. 402, 403.

[994] Id. pp. 401, 402.

[995] Mosheim’s Hist. of the Church, book iv. cent. xvi. sect. 3, part ii. paragraph 22, note.

[996] Life of Luther, p. 402.

[997] D’Aubigné’s Hist. of Ref. book x. p. 312.

[998] Life of Luther, p. 403.

[999] D’Aubigné’s Hist. Ref. book x. pp. 314, 315.

[1000] Id. Ib.

[1001] M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia, vol. ii. p. 123.

[1002] Id. Ib.

[1003] Life of Luther, p. 400.

[1004] D’Aubigné’s Hist. Ref. book x. p. 312.

[1005] Id. book x. p. 315.

[1006] Hist. Ref. book x. p. 315.

[1007] Life of Luther, p. 403.

[1008] Mosheim’s Church Hist. book iv. cent. 16, sect. 3, part ii. paragraph 22, note.

[1009] Id. Ib. Very nearly the same statement is made by Du Pin, tome 13, chap. ii. section 20, p. 103, A. D. 1703.

[1010] Hist. Ref. book x. p. 315.

[1011] Treatise of the Sabbath Day, p. 8.

[1012] Life of Luther, p. 402.

[1013] Quoted in the Life of Martin Luther in Pictures, p. 147, Philadelphia, J. W. Moore, 195 Chestnut street.

[1014] M’Clintock and Strong, vol. ii. p. 123; Dr. A. Clarke’s Commentary, preface to James.

[1015] M’Clintock and Strong, vol. iii. p. 679; D’Aubigné’s Hist. Ref. book xviii. pp. 672, 689, 706, 707; book xx. pp. 765, 766; Fox’s Acts and Monuments, book viii. pp. 524-527.

[1016] Frith’s works, p. 69, quoted in Hessey, p. 198.

[1017] Eccl. Researches, chap. xvi. p. 630.

[1018] Id. Ib.

[1019] Id. p. 631.

[1020] Eccl. Researches, chap. xvi. p. 636.

[1021] Id. pp. 636, 637.

[1022] Eccl. Researches, chap. xvi. p. 640.

[1023] Mosheim’s Hist. Church, book iv. cent. 16, sect. 3, part ii. chap. iv. par. 23.

[1024] Lamy’s History of Socinianism, p. 60.

[1025] “Nunc audimus apud Bohemos exoriri novum Judæorum genus, Sabbatarios appellant, qui tanta superstitione servant Sabbatum, ut si quid eo die inciderit in oculum, nolint eximere; quasi non sufficiat eis pro Sabbato Dies Dominicus, qui Apostolis etiam erat sacer, aut quasi Christus non satis expresserit quantum tribuen dum sit Sabbato.” De Amabili Ecclesiæ Concordia; Opera, tome 5, p. 506, Lugd. Bat. 1704; quoted in Cox’s Sabbath Literature, vol. ii. pp. 201, 202; Hessey, p. 374.

[1026] Cox, vol. ii. p. 202.

[1027] Such statements respecting the observers of the seventh day are very common. Even those who first commenced to keep the Sabbath in Newport were said to “have left Christ and gone to Moses in the observation of days, and times, and seasons, and such like.”—Seventh-day Baptist Memorial, vol. i. p. 32. The pastor of the first-day Baptist church of Newport said to them: “I do judge you have and still do deny Christ.”—Id. p. 37.

[1028] The Present State of the Greek Church in Russia, Appendix. p. 273, New York, 1815.

[1029] Murdock’s Mosheim, book iv. cent. xvii. sect. 2, part i. chap. ii. note 12.

[1030] See the twenty-first chapter of this work.

[1031] Id. Ib.

[1032] Maxson’s Hist. Sab. p. 41.

[1033] Manual of the Seventh-day Baptists, p. 16.

[1034] Martyrology of the Churches of Christ, commonly called Baptists, during the era of the Reformation. From the Dutch of T. J. Van Braght, London, 1850, vol. i. pp. 113, 114.

[1035] Id. p. 113.

[1036] Manual of the S. D. Baptists, p. 16.

[1037] Wall’s History of Infant Baptism, vol. ii. p. 379, Oxford, 1835.

[1038] I know of no exception to this statement. If there be any it must be found in the cases of those observing both seventh and first days. Even here, there is certainly no such thing as sprinkling for baptism, but possibly there may be the baptism of young children.

[1039] Hist. English Baptists, vol. ii. pref. pp. 43, 44.

[1040] Maxson’s Hist. Sab. p. 42.

[1041] Gen. Hist. Bapt. Denom. vol. ii. p. 414, ed. 1813.

[1042] Hengstenberg’s Lord’s Day, p. 66.

[1043] Coleman’s Ancient Christianity Exemplified, chap. xxvi. sect. 2; Heylyn’s Hist. Sab. part ii. chap. viii. sect. 7; Neal’s Hist. Puritans, part i. chap. viii.

[1044] Sabbathum Veteris et Novi Testamenti; or, the True Doctrine of the Sabbath, by Nicholas Bound, D. D., sec. ed. London, 1606, p. 51.

[1045] Id. p. 66.

[1046] True Doc. of the Sab. p. 71.

[1047] Id. p. 72.

[1048] Hist. Sab. part ii. chap. viii. sect. 8.

[1049] Prælectiones Theologicæ, vol. i. part ii. sect. 2, cap. i. p. 194. “Propositio. Præter sacram Scripturam admitti necessario debent Traditiones divinæ dogmaticæ ab illa prorsus distinctæ.”

“Non posse praeterea, rejectis ejusmodi traditionibus, plura dogmata, quæ nobiscum retinuerunt protestantes cum ab Ecclesia catholica recesserunt, ullo modo adstruis, res est citra omnis dubitationis aleam posita. Etenim ipsi nobiscum retinuerunt valorem baptismi ab haereticis aut infidelibus administrati, valorem item paedobaptismi, germanam baptismi formam, cessationem legis de abstinentia a sanguine et suffocato, de die dominico Sabbatis suffecto, praeter ea quæ superius commemoravimus aliaque haud pauca.”

[1050] Backus’ Hist. of the Baptists in New England, p. 63, ed. 1777.

[1051] Chambers’ Cyclopedia, article, Sabbath, vol. viii. p. 402, London, 1867.

[1052] Gilfillan’s Sabbath, p. 60.

[1053] Observation of the Christian Sabbath, p. 2.

[1054] See the fifteenth chapter of this work.

[1055] Gilfillan’s Sabbath, p. 88.

[1056] Id. Ib.

[1057] Pagitt’s Heresiography, p. 209, London, 1661.

[1058] Pagitt’s Heresiography, p. 209.

[1059] Id. p. 210.

[1060] Id. p. 164.

[1061] Pagitt’s Heresiography, pp. 196, 197.

[1062] Id. p. 161.

[1063] Manual of the Seventh-day Baptists, pp. 17, 18; Heylyn’s Hist. of the Sab. part ii. chap. viii. sect. 10; Gilfillan’s Sabbath, pp. 88, 89; Cox’s Sabbath Literature, vol. i. pp. 152, 153.

[1064] Manual of the S. D. Baptists, p. 18.

[1065] Dr. Francis White’s Treatise of the Sabbath Day, quoted in Cox’s Sab. Lit. vol. i. p. 167.

[1066] Heylyn’s Cyprianus Anglicus, quoted in Cox, vol. i. p. 173.

[1067] Treatise of the Sabbath Day, p. 110.

[1068] Hessey’s Bampton Lectures, pp. 373, 374; Cox’s Sab. Lit. vol. ii. p. 6; A. H. Lewis’s Sabbath and Sunday, pp. 178-184. This work contains much valuable information respecting English and American Sabbatarians.

[1069] Treatise of the Sabbath Day, p. 73.

[1070] Manual of the S. D. Baptists, pp. 19, 20.

[1071] Cox, vol. i. p. 268; vol. ii. p. 10.

[1072] Id. vol. ii. p. 35.

[1073] Hist. English Baptists, vol. i. pp. 365, 366.

[1074] Hist. Puritans, part 2. chap. x.

[1075] Crosby’s Hist. Eng. Baptists, vol. i. pp. 366, 367.

[1076] Hist. Puritans, part 2, chap. x.

[1077] Calamy’s Ejected Ministers, vol. ii. pp. 258, 259; Lewis’ Sabbath and Sunday, pp. 188-193.

[1078] Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, vol. iv. p. 123.

[1079] Crosby, vol. i. p. 367.

[1080] Ex. 16:23; Gen. 2:3.

[1081] Judgment for the Observation of the Jewish or Seventh-day Sabbath, pp. 6-8, 1672.

[1082] Calamy, vol. 2, p. 260.

[1083] Crosby, vol. 2, pp. 165-171.

[1084] When asked what he had to say why sentence should not be pronounced, he said he would leave with them these scriptures: Jer. 26:14, 15; Ps. 116:15.

[1085] Manual, &c. pp. 21-23.

[1086] Crosby’s Hist. Eng. Bapt. vol. iii. pp. 138, 139.

[1087] “When the London Seventh-day Baptists, in 1664, sent Stephen Mumford to America, and in 1675 sent Eld. William Gibson, they did as much, in proportion to their ability, as had been done by any society for propagating the gospel in foreign parts.”—Seventh-day Baptist Memorial, vol. i. p. 43.

[1088] Ch. Hist. of N. England from 1783 to 1796, chap. xi. sect. 10.

[1089] Hist. of the S. D. Bapt. Gen. Conf. by Jas. Bailey, pp. 237, 238.

[1090] Seventh-day Baptist Memorial, vol. i. pp. 27, 28, 29.

[1091] Records of the First Baptist Church in Newport, quoted in the S. D. Baptist Memorial, vol. i. pp. 28-39.

[1092] Bailey’s Hist. pp. 9, 10.

[1093] Id. p. 237.

[1094] Id. p. 238.

[1095] Manual of the S. D. Baptists, pp. 39, 40; Backus, chap. xi. sect. 10.

[1096] Hist. S. D. Baptist Gen. Conf. pp. 15, 238.

[1097] Id. pp. 46-55.

[1098] Id. pp. 57, 58, 62, 74, 82.

[1099] Sabbath and Sunday, p. 232.

[1100] Much interesting matter pertaining to the Seventh-day Baptists of America may be found in Utter’s Manual of the S. D. Baptists; Bailey’s Hist. of the S. D. Bapt. Gen. Conf.; Lewis’s Sabbath and Sunday, and in the S. D. B. Memorial.

[1101] Rupp’s History of all Religious Denominations in the United States, pp. 109-123, second edition; Bailey’s Hist. Gen. Conf. pp. 255-258.

[1102] New York Independent, March 18, 1869.

[1103] Semi-Weekly Tribune, May 4, 1869.

[1104] This sister was born at Vernon, Vt. Her maiden name was Rachel D. Harris. At the age of seventeen, she was converted and soon after joined the Methodist church. After her marriage, she removed with her husband to central New York. There, at the age of twenty-eight, she became an observer of the Bible Sabbath. The Methodist minister, her pastor, did what he could to turn her from the Sabbath, but finally told her she might keep it if she would not leave them. But she was faithful to her convictions of duty and united with the first Seventh-day Baptist church of Verona, Oneida Co., N. Y. Her first husband bore the name of Oaks; her second, that of Preston. She and her daughter, Delight Oaks, were members of the first Verona church at the time of their removal to Washington, N. H. The mother died Feb. 1, 1868; the daughter, several years earlier.

[1105] Eld. Preble’s article appeared in the Hope of Israel of Feb. 28, 1845, published at Portland, Maine. This article was reprinted in the Advent Review of Aug. 23, 1870. The article, as rewritten by Eld. Preble and published in tract form, was also printed in the Review of Dec. 21, 1869.

[1106] He fell asleep March 19, 1872, in the eightieth year of his age.

[1107] For a further knowledge of their views, see their weekly paper, the Advent Review and Herald of the Sabbath, published at Battle Creek, Michigan, at $2.00 per year, and the list of publications advertised in its columns.

[1108] Rev. 12:17; 14:12.

[1109] Rev. 19:10.

[1110] Rev. 4:10, 11.

[1111] 2 Pet. 3; Isa. 65; Rev. 21, 22. Milton thus states this doctrine:—